These are the fastest growing SF jobs that pay at least $70k, according to Indeed

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A new study from Indeed provides more evidence that San Francisco's job market is trending towards highly technical positions.

The job site unveiled its list of the top ten positions in the city, based on growth, exclusively to SFGate. Topping the list is Product Designer, followed by Operations Analyst, Department Manager, and Full Stack Developer — all technical positions.

"We were amazed at how technical this list was and how many of the jobs are dealing with either data or with complex technical products," Paul D'Arcy, Senior Vice President at Indeed told SFGATE. "San Francisco remains a relatively diversified economy. There's still, for example, a base of manufacturing in San Francisco and the area around San Francisco. Consumer brands are there. Financial services are there."

D'Arcy said that the list of highly-technical jobs really surprised Indeed.

"It really reflects a shift in the economy toward being more software driven, and San Francisco being in the heart of that shift," he said.

The list, compiled by Indeed's data science team, looks specifically at job listings with a salary of at least $70,000. That list is then cross-referenced against the number of postings found for those same types of positions between 2013-2016.

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Job titles are normalized. So, an Operations Analyst, for instance, might be a sales operations analyst, and finance operations analyst or a supply chain analyst, among other positions. Jobs with different titles are grouped together when they're essentially the same type of work. Along those lines, a "full stack developer" could also be a software engineer.

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"We take all those similar titles and bring them together into one normal recognized category," says D'Arcy.

While the list is San Francisco specific, it also points to a larger trend in the U.S. as a whole. Full Stack Developer, for instance, tops the charts for the entire United States, and several Salesforce positions have also ranked in the overall top 10. You can check out the national list below on the Indeed website.

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